Bessie Eyton
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Bessie starred in at least 200 melodrama, action westerns and crime films. In the 1910 she was visiting the Selig Film studios with a party of friends, when a director saw and liked her red hair because he said it would photograph a beautiful black, so he offered her a minor role, she had no formal training on stage, as did many early film actors, she was talented and soon rose to be one of Selig's most popular stars.
Known for
Credits
Who Shall Take My Life? (1917)
as Mary Moran
Blackbeard (1911)
as Conchita
The Crisis (1916)
as Virginia Carvel
Shotgun Jones (1914)
as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
Cheap Kisses (1924)
as Maybelle Wescott
In the Days of the Thundering Herd (1914)
as Sally Madison
The City of Purple Dreams (1918)
as Kathlyn Otis
Greater Wealth (1913)
as Mrs. Ed Young
In the Long Ago (1913)
as Starlight
The Mate of the Alden Bessie (1912)
as The Captain's Daughter
Etienne of the Glad Heart (1914)
as Marie Le Groux
The Red Blood of Courage (1915)
as Lydia Duane
The Spoilers (1914)
as Helen Chester
When the West Was Young (1914)
as Nellie Halton
Alone in the Jungle (1913)
as Helen Brown
Children of Banishment (1919)
as Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
Chip of the Flying U (1914)
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
Kid Pink and the Maharajah (1914)
Actor
Kit Carson's Wooing (1911)
as Lat-to-nick
The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917)
as Texas Ryan
In Defiance of the Law (1914)
as Isobel Deane
The Girl of Gold (1925)
as Ada Tremaine
A Man of Honor (1919)
as Christabel Beaumont
Lend Me Your Name (—)
as Sophronia
The Way of a Man with a Maid (1918)
as Gladys
The Smuggler's Sister (1914)
as Bessie
The Law North of 65 (1917)
as Jeanne
The Two Natures Within Him (1915)
as Mary Bishop
The Wilderness Mail (1914)
as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
Beware of Strangers (1917)
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
The Still Alarm (1918)
as Eleanor Fordham
The White Mouse (1914)
as Jean Silver
Lassoing a Lion (1915)
as Mary Valjon
His Fighting Blood (1915)
as Hope McTrigger
The Fork in the Road (1915)
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
The Great Experiment (1915)
as Ritta
The Primitive Way (1915)
as Mildred Manning
Twisted Trails (1916)
as Sunshine West
The Usurper (1919)
as Margaret Quentin